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Three Turkish soldiers killed in
Turkey-Kurdistan
30.7.2005
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ANKARA, July 29 (AFP) - 23h52 - Unidentified
gunmen opened fire Friday on an army recruitment
office in the northeastern Turkish province of
Gumushane, killing a soldier on watch outside the
building, Anatolia news agency reported.
The incident in the town of Torul followed an armed
attack on a police vehicle in the central city of
the province, also called Gumushane, on Monday,
which left two people injured and which officials
blamed on militants from the rebel Kurdistan
Workers' Party (PKK).
An operation was launched in the region to hunt down
the assailants, whom the semi-official Anatolia
described as "terrorists" -- a customary reference
to militants from the PKK, who have recently
intensified attacks against the Turkish army.
Gumushane is not a region where the PKK is usually
active, but local officials said earlier that a
group of PKK militants who came north from the
mainly Kurdish southeast were trying to establish
themselves in the province.
The PKK has stepped up violence in the southeast
over the past several months, after it called off a
five-year unilateral ceasefire in June 2004 on
grounds that reforms by Ankara to expand Kurdish
freedoms were inadequate.
The group, blacklisted as a terrorist organization
by the United States and the European Union, was
also blamed for a July 16 bomb attack in a popular
seaside resort in the west which killed five people
including foreign tourists.
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Car bomb in Hakkari kills two Turkish soldiers
Turkey-Kurdistan, July 29 - A car bomb that went off
around 12:30 (12:30 pm EEST) on July 29 in Hakkari
left two non-commissioned Turkish officers dead and
three citizens wounded, the Kurdish news agency DIHA
reports.
The two officers Sevket Kaygisiz and Burhan Baykal
from the Hakkari Commando Brigades were killed when
they started their car. The car, a Toyota with the
number plate 34 TA 0245, was registered to a soldier
at the Hakkari District Gendarmerie Headquarters.
The bomb is believed to have been installed with the
purpose of assassinating the two Turkish officers.
No one has taken responsibility for the car bomb.
The three civilians are being treated at Hakkari
State Hospital. The condition of the civilians is
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